Reduce Eating When Not Hungry with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Being mindful helps you gain awareness so you can identify specific cues that influence your eating behavior. Practicing mindfulness can change your actions so that you have a sense of greater control over eating. It allows you to make deliberate […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The practice of yoga can offer a therapeutic venue for engaging in physical activity while providing an outlet for many of the symptoms associated with eating disorders.“ – Jacquelyn Ekern Around 30 million people in the United States of all ages and genders suffer from an eating […]
Reduce Social Anxiety and Drinking with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “When you practice sitting in curious awareness, without forcing it, mindfulness becomes easier and easier. You become an observer, rather than a participant in the damaging thoughts that run through your head. As you become more aware, you are less […]
Help Control Eating Disorders in Men with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The practice of mindful eating can help a person create greater awareness of thoughts, emotions, feeling, and behaviors. While eating disorders effectively numb emotions, practicing mindfulness can help a person reflect on what they are feeling or experiencing prior […]
Be Better at Resisting Food with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindfulness is paying attention to your surroundings, being in the present moment. Mindful eating is eating with purpose, eating on purpose, eating with awareness, eating without distraction, when eating only eating, not watching television or playing computer games or having […]
Brief Mindfulness Training may Increase Drinking Impulsivity to Negative Emotions By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “it’s helping people become really aware of what’s happening in their minds. Once they see that, they have a choice and they have some freedom.” – Sarah Bowen Inappropriate use of alcohol is a major societal […]
Reduce Intake of Sweets and Blood Glucose Levels with Mindful Eating By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindful eating helps us learn to hear what our body is telling us about hunger and satisfaction. It helps us become aware of who in the body/heart/mind complex is hungry, and how and what is best to […]
Improve Eating Disorders with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “One of the biggest ways yoga helped me heal from anorexia was the release it provided me. I had stored so much in my body, so much pain and sadness, that often when I practiced yoga I would sob. I wouldn’t know […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “But whether or not you are predisposed to hedonic eating because of your genetics, everyone could benefit by becoming more mindful of what they eat, how much they eat, and when they eat.” – Tim Boyer Obesity has become an epidemic in the industrialized world. In […]
“Eating is a natural, healthy, and pleasurable activity for satisfying hunger. However, in our food-abundant, diet-obsessed culture, eating is often mindless, consuming, and guilt-inducing instead. Mindful eating is an ancient mindfulness practice with profound modern implications and applications for resolving this troubled love-hate relationship with food.” – Am I Hungry Obesity has become […]